From WikiLeaks

The CRS is a Congressional "think tank" with a staff of around 700. Reports are commissioned by members of Congress on topics relevant to current political events. Despite CRS costs to the tax payer of over $100M a year, its electronic archives are, as a matter of policy, not made available to the public.

Individual members of Congress will release specific CRS reports if they believe it to assist them politically, but CRS archives as a whole are firewalled from public access.

This report was obtained by Wikileaks staff from CRS computers accessible only from Congressional offices.

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is the primary federal statute in the fields of minimum wage, overtime pay, child labor, and related subjects. In the 109th Congress, legislation in a variety of forms has been introduced that would modify the act in each of these areas, and that would extend the act's minimum wage protections to workers in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).